last season in the southern league

Football was disbanded for the duration of the Great War, but the Southern League re-started soon after. The 1919-20 season saw a single large sheet programme folded twice to give six 250mm x 125mm pages. The programmes for the matches versus Exeter City and Queens Park Rangers in November 1919 were printed on pink paper, and the price had doubled to two pence. Adverts still very much dominated and the editorial by ‘Onlooker’ was down to about a third of a page. Changing social times were highlighted by the (until then) compulsory theatre advert on the cover, being replaced by ‘Nelson’s for Gramophones and Accessories’. The cover also carried an advert from Gus Peters at The Eclipse, Montgomery Street. This pub is still closely associated with The Albion and until the move to Dick’s Bar, was the venue for the Brighton and Hove Albion Heritage Society meetings. Programmes were now printed by The Southern Publishing Co, which was the start of a very long association.